TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378189
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY
Statutory Address:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

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Date:: 2001-05-08
Reference:: IOE01/03028/04
Rights:: © Norman Wigg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378189
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TERRACE RETAINING WALL, HA-HA AND PEDESTALS WITH URNS APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES SOUTH OF HOUSE AT POLESDEN LACEY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 13783 52039

Details

GREAT BOOKHAM TQ 15 SW

5/61 Terrace retaining wall, ha-ha and pedestals with urns approx 150 metres south of house at Polesden Lacey

GV II

Terrace retaining wall with ha-ha and pedestals with urns. Probably begun 1761 (said to be dated on foundation wall); extended c.1800 for Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Forms the southern boundary of the garden to Polesden Lacey, with a retaining wall of limestone rubble approximately 500 metres long from east to west, and approximately 1½ metres high (with a "parapet" of yew hedging); the eastern half has a projecting central box and equidistant rectangular bays, each of these containing a large gadrooned urn on a high pedestal.

Listing NGR: TQ1378352039

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Legacy System number:: 290449
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 40 Surrey,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.